Offed her!

The Morning the Street Stood Still. Tessa woke to a silence so loud it thrummed behind her ears. The kind of silence that presses against your chest and makes each breath feel like it must be earned.

For a moment she lay still, fingers threaded through the soft cotton of the bedspread, trying to convince herself the quiet was ordinary, the hush of a weekend morning, the calm before errands and calls and the small rehearsed dramas of her life. But the quiet did not feel ordinary. ...